In 1981 a great Ray Harryhausen film came out that was a film to behold even to the gods. Clash was a great movie for its time. It opened a week or two around the time of Raiders of the Lost Ark. It had gret actors George Hamlin Lawrence Olivia Burgess Meradith, and Bond Girl Ursual Andrews. If you get real nitpick with the movie then you wont like how it compares to greek mythology. I saw this film when I was 7 years old and it blew me away I had never seen anything like it. Its on dvd and was just rereleased on dvd and now blueray. The one thing I never understood was what the hell that little bird was about. They had this little mechanical bird that Aphrodite gives Persias to help him on his journey. It made no sence what so ever. They say it was to belike his version of R2D2 but then they also said there bird was developed before Lucas made R2D2. So then your telling me they started working on Clash in 1976 before Star Wars came out in 1977. Then why did Clash not come out till 1981. There are some facts that make no sence, but the movie is still worth checking out.
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Chris
Author: Chris
Writer and radio show host in Worcester Ma
The Horror of BlockBuster Video
What is it when corporate people get together. must they never figure out if it’s not broken don’t fix it. They have brought back late fees!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHY everything was fine b4 this. In 2004 they did away with late fees. So many people owed them money and they did away with late fees gave everyone a fresh start. in 2010 they brought them back they give u one less day for the rental and they lowered the fee to $4.00. The fee is now a buck a day, guess they sw Red box doing a good thing. But their rental is only a dollar to begin with. Last year they changed there online terms and really hurt people. I knew quite a few people who dropped them. Netflix has cornered the market on the online download with hits on X-Box PS3 and now the Wii. Blockbuster is suppose to unveil something called the Blue box to compete with Netflix.
They really need to take their head out of their ass and get there act together with Holly wood video filling Chapter 11 they are the only major Video chain in the world with stores u can pop into for a nightly rental. This is a horror related article in terms of you use BB to rent the newest horror dvd blue ray or video game, just incase anyone was wondering. I leave with this article posted last month about the sorry ass state of BlockBuster video.
On March 12, 2010, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Blockbuster’s independent registered public accounting firm, issued its audit opinion disclosing substantial doubt about Blockbuster’s ability to continue as a going concern. This report was included in Blockbusters’s 10-K SEC filing. On March 17, 2010, Blockbuster issued a bankruptcy warning after continued drops in revenue threatened its ability to service it’s nearly 1 billion dollar debt load
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Christopher Golden and the BCC
Tomorow night Christopher Golden will be on the show, well a taped recording of Golden. We met back over the Summer, and a few weeks ago we taped his interview. You can meet Christopher at the Boston Comic Con 2010. He did a mini comic with Mike Mignola who will also be at the con this year. Jim Starlin the creator of the Infinity Gauntlet will also be there. Another big star is jim Lee, long time artist from the days of X-men Batman Superman And one of the founders of Image and WildCats.
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The Walking Dead the Tv show
One of the best Horror Comics ever written will become a TV show on AMC in Oct. The cast list is up just go to imdb.com to check out who’s playing Rick and the rest of the survivors.
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Supernatural Season 6?
Erik Kripke the creator of Supernatural has said that season 6 of the show will happen. But why tho??? The show has the fight between God and the Devil this season. What more could they do. Will have to stay tuned to find out. He did say that there is no more hiatus all new episodes up till the May finale. Next month issue 4 of the comic hits.
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PaxEast 2010 Report
The first ever video game con that Radio of Horror has been to and boy are we tired. Lets go over some of the highlights of the con. This con was put on by the people over at Penny Arcade.
GAMES—These will be the games that really stood out in our mind. We got to play a number of great demos for games such as Shank a very cartoony and violent downloadable game for the 360. The Calling by Hudson on the Wii, this game is a great point and click japanese style horror game that uses the word survival horror the way it should be. Like the game Siren its less about blasting away the enemy and more about how to survive the game itself. Very rarely do we get this any more. I met with a couple reps for The Calling, and we will have our full review when we get our copy soon. The Dishwasher Dead Samurai another game you can download on the Wii has a sequel coming soon Vampire Tears. This is a twisted violent little game but so cute and weird at the same time. We will be downloading the full game soon and you can check out our review then. Dungeons and Dragons–The company Turbine was one of the great companies based out of Westwood MA. They develop this great RPG a few years ago, and it has been going strong ever since. They also developed a Lord of the Rings RPG.
Panals—We sat in on a few panels at the con the biggest problem was waiting in line for these panels. It was long and you wasted a lot of time waiting in line for a panal to begin. The biggest panal that stood out for us was for Dead Space 2 by EA. We finally got a contact with EA YAH. They went over the history of the game in GREAT DETAIL. They went thru the different things you may have missed from DS and DS Extraction. This panel was more than just how they made the game it was a fan boys dream to hear the developers get very geeky with their details. Then they showed 2 mins of new footage and had a cos-play Isack Clark come out in the new DS2 armor. It was fantastic. They even passed out Dead Space Graphic novels and Artbooks to the crowd. We got an Art Book. The other panel we attend was for the Collage Humor guys. This is something you have to check out just google Collage humor.
Gaming—There was a lot of great gaming to be had at this con. Bad Company, Halo, Alien vs Predator, and more. I don’t normally partake in a lot of PC gaming because of not having a great high-end computer but I definitely want to look into it soon. They even had a Retro gaming room or two that was a real great blast to the past for me.
Other things we did at the con ws partake in a few raffles and we even won Sega’s Beyonetta, The Conduit and the 360 Orange Box. WE met reps from Rockstar,2K, Disney, Alien Ware and more. The Alien Ware setup was huge and it really gave us a chance to see what kind of fire power this gaming pc system has to offer. The massive amount of freebie stuff we got is great. Some of it we will auction off as per a few deals we made, in order to help the wcuw fundraiser.
All in all it was a good time, there were some lag parts, but when you have Weill Wheaton giving the key-note speech it definitely helps the atmosphere of the con and make it lively. I look forward to Pax East 2011. For the next three years it will all be in Boston. Thankfully not at the Hynes Con again next year
www.hudsonent.com, www.turbine.com, www.alienware.com, http://www.ska-studios.com/, http://www.penny-arcade.com/
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Pax Con East 2010
I am here at Pax con East more update as the day goes on. For now lounging on a beanbag waiting for my roommates and editor to show up.
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Pax Con East in 2 days
Soon I will be at Pax Con east a huge gaming con. I will have Shota Nakama from the Video Game Symphony orchestra on the show this Sunday after the con. I will also have a chance to meet the keynote speaker Will Wheaton from Star Trek The Next Generation. HE is a big gamer and a big geek.
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Hollywood Video Chapter 11
The big media rental giant Hollywood Video ( who I have always prefered rather than Blockbuster) has filed chapter 11. Once apon a time the Rental industry was strong. But it’s really died like the newspapers. The store located in Worcester Ma on Park Ave has a great selection of Horror and Sci-Fi films. 3 for 18 bucks. I picked up The complete Lone Gunmen, Juon, King Kong(33),and a couple Mystery Science Theater 3000 box sets. They still have plenty left over go check them out.
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First 3-D/Blue Ray Film
Monsters vs Aliens is coming out again on Tuesday in Digital 3-D. This is the first of the new digital 3-D films to come out. It s great since it s a Monster movie a good monster movie even. It has a great cats behind it with Reese Witherspoon and Hugh Laurie, Keither Sutherland and others round out the cast. There were two shorts also Bobs Big Break and a Halloween special. You will need to shell out $400 for the player and then u can watch the movie YAH. Next big 3-D film on Blu-Ray will be Avatar.
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Ms.Vampy
Horror show host Brooke Lewis aka Ms.Vampy is calling in tonight at 1230am est she is goign to apear at the Vampira tribute show at horror hounds next weekend. Pennydreadfull will also be there another horror host and friend of Radio of Horror
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0506989/
http://phillychickpictures.com/
http://www.msvampy.net/
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Young Frankenstein
Coming soon to Ma is Young Frankenstein the Musical. This is written by Mel Brooks the original creator of the 1974 classic film. Check out ticketmaster for more info.
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Actor Peter Graves Passes Away
Peter Graves who was best known for his roles in the movie Airplane and It conquered the World passed away last night of a heart attack. He was 86 years old. His best role may have been as the goofey pervet piolet in Airplane 1and 2 but, he is super famous for his role in the 1970s show Mission Impossible. He was also the host of A&E Biography.
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Poet/writer Susurrus Din/Ryan Coffman and Gore Zone Magazine
Susurrus Din/Ryan Coffman a horror writer and fellow horror junkie will be on the show tonight. HE will be in studio with us all night I think lol. Calling in from the UK will be Bryan from Gore Zone Magazine. Bryan will give us some info on his great horror magazine. Here is a link to learn more about both Ryan and Bryan.
http://susurrusdin.blogspot.com
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Horror Game downloads on Wii,360,PS3
- The new Resident Evil download is available on 360 and PS3. Desperate Escape follows Jill Valentine as she escapes from the mansion and comes full circle where she reunites with Chris and Shiva to take down Wesker. This game like the last one is about an hour and can be very frustrating and nail-biting. The ending is one of those great u have 10 mins to survive a onslought of foes. This one differs from the other in the way that its back to more action based like RE4 and 5. Where as Lost in Nightmares was more puzzle solving like very RE game before 4. It’s definetly worth downloading and checking out.
- Next you have Zombie’s Ate my Neighbors. This classic game form the Super Nintendo/Sega Genesis days is one of the best platformers from the 16 bit era. It’s loads of fun and one of the few original horror games of the early 90s. This is one zombie game that will take u hours to beat and you can play with a friend just like the RE game. IF you have a Wii its definitely worth the download.